Word: franciscan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senile Ghost. Alfred's son Fritz was a pudgy, gourmandizing sybarite, who fattened Kruppdom by gobbling up coal and iron mines and the shipyards at Kiel. But his chief bequest was "the Capri scandal." There, in a Tiberian grotto, guarded by boys garbed as Franciscan friars, he staged Black Masses and homosexual orgies. When his wife protested, he had her locked up as insane. Just when the whole affair broke in the German press, Fritz suffered a fatal stroke and was eulogized by Kaiser Wilhelm II in a state funeral...
...Then he branched out. He took a mistress, buxom Rina Bianchini, setting up her cuckolded husband in the haberdashery business. Two years ago, when the husband killed himself, Giuffrè married Rina. During the years he lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks one better. He attracted the bank's regular customers by offering to pay them 25% to 30% annual interest on loans...
Penance Underground. The custom gained added impetus from the preaching of the Franciscan missionaries, who strongly emphasized the sufferings of Christ's passion in their teachings, and permitted the practice of self-scourging as an act of devotion. When the Franciscans were withdrawn at the close of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, and the visits of priests to the villages grew increasingly rare, a group of Catholic laymen called Penitentes gradually emerged. Its members conducted services, taught doctrine, visited the sick and buried the dead-in effect performing all the priestly functions except saying Mass...
...Falls of St. Anthony in Minneapolis were discovered and named by Franciscan Father Louis Hennepin...
...shimpu-san (priest) of a flock of 3,000, went to Nase in 1952 straight from four years of working among the poor in Bridgeport. When he arrived, he spoke no Japanese; today he sometimes has to search for the right word in English. He and two other Franciscan priests (both American) and two lay brothers tour the island by jeep-and when the jeeps break down, on foot. "We count distances not in miles but in mountains climbed," says Father Jerome...